Overcoming Sexual Sin Part #3
By THE TWO OLIVE TREES THAT STAND BEFORE THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH, THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION 11, THE TWO PROPHETS OF THE BOOK OF MALACHI
Let us look at the Book of Psalms 51. The 51st Psalm; I’m going to give you some very important tools; I can just read them for you here of where we are heading to. Some of the tools if you are writing down are: prayer, spiritual solitude and physical solitude, and then fasting to kill the flesh that you saw him talking about in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit and many others. We are heading there but for now I just want to bring you slowly into how do you break the chains; how did David get out of those chains. How can you break those chains?
The 51st Psalm and I’m beginning from verse 1 all the way to 19, but I’m reading from verse 5 to verse 11. Look at what 5 says, Psalm 51, “5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me the wisdom in the innermost place. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. 10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
Do you see the secret somebody? That means he’s talking very clearly here that sexual sin is something about the heart. That’s why the Lord said in Matthew chapter 5:27 that whoever looks at a woman and lusts at her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. It’s all about the heart! And so he’s explaining to you very clearly here that if you want to start your way out of the way of the chains of sexual sin, let the Lord create in you a new heart. You cannot continue trying to sijui mend here, do this; ask him to give you a new heart because there is something called addiction. They get addicted to pornography; they get addicted to sexual sin; they are addicted to men; they are addicted to women; that addiction can only be broken by asking God to create in you a new heart, He is more than able. That is the beginning of breaking the chains. You cannot say clean 20% and leave for me 30%.
It comes from the wisdom of knowing that it is time to tremble before God because God speaks death to sexual sin. And you see David’s crying out to him sincerely, genuinely. You cannot hide anything from our God. You may say sijui I’m a pastor, I’m clean or I’m a mshiriki, I’m clean. But the Lord knows your heart—you are lusting at that woman in church, you have fallen; you are lusting at that man in church, you have fallen. The Lord knows every fiber of your heart. I am walking you very slowly the way out of sexual sin. Look at what he says verse 12 here, “12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation” listen to me somebody, “…and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” Give me joy. If it is joy I was looking for from that woman and man, please can you give me the joy of your salvation so I will have joy unspeakable in your salvation. No woman, no man will replace that joy. That is the secret to breaking out.
If you are looking for joy from women ask God to fill you with the joy of salvation; joy unspeakable that you just sit and laugh. You just begin laughing and people think you are crazy. In Hebrew they call it if you translate it, “carefree joy; carefree”—I don’t care anymore. I’m just joyful. I don’t care whether my fellow friends they are going for beer in the evening. From work they are saying, you know what “I am going to meet my boyfriend in the beer garden; I’m going to meet, nanii amekuja kunipick na gari yake.” You don’t even care anymore about those things. You have carefree joy. I don’t care anymore. I am just joyful because the Lord Jesus amenikomboa; He has delivered me from those things. And your heart is full of joy because you know the joy of salvation; the joy of salvation coming into your heart. Asking the Lord to fill your hearts with the joy unspeakable—joy of salvation is one of the major keys to break out of the chain of sexual sin.
Halleluyah; and verse 15 he says, “15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praises.” So you may just begin to praise the Lord; just praising the Lord. Opening your mouth and praising God and speaking the holy words of the Lord will definitely cleanse out your hearts because out of the abundance of the heart comes what you speak in your tongue. I’m telling you we are walking out of sexual sin. And I’m slowly walking you into how you can break the chains. And you begin to see that pouring out your heart to the Lord; being sincere with the Lord and telling Him, “Lord, please don’t look at my sins, I deserve death.” And this heart I have is a rotten heart. I want you to give me a new heart and fill that heart with the joy of salvation because sexual sin is addictive. I don’t want this old heart that likes sexual sin. I want a new heart and fill it with the joy of salvation to cause my lips to speak praises to you Lord.” Halleluyah!
You begin to see the way out of sexual sin. The Book of Exodus 12 verses 21 to 25. One of the ways that will help you to get out of sexual sin—the chains; Halleluyah; now listen to this somebody; He says, “Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, ‘Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover Lamb.” 22 he says, “Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on top and the sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.”
The power of the Blood of the Lamb; the power of the Blood of the Lord Jesus—it is a fight between death and life and you see very clearly here that sexual sin is actually death but packaged differently by the enemy in terms of slits, miniskirts, whatever they are. That is death coming to you. And the Lord is saying, “Take the Blood of the Lamb and let the Blood of the Lamb cover you so when the death comes, He cannot touch you, somebody.”
(Na magari makubwa, makubwa; na nyumba kubwa kubwa; sijui ametoka Dubai juzi juzi; sijui anarudi tena anaenda South Africa). He travels a lot; I like him, he’s my man. And the devil has packaged death like that and he says the Blood of the Lamb will make sure nothing will touch you, somebody. And the LORD says, “Take the Blood of the Lamb, cover your house; cover this side; cover everywhere so when death comes, He will not touch you. Cover your children; cover your home; cover your job. And he says even when you enter at the land where you are heading to, the new job you are going to, where there are many people lusting for you; where your employer was interviewing you because he was saying, “This young girl I want her. I’ll bring her to be my secretary and I’ll sleep with her. This young girl here I’ll bring her to be my secretary; this young man here he will be my boyfriend when I employ him.” And he says, “Even in that land where you are going to, you keep covering yourself with the Blood of the Lamb—no death shall ever touch you. Halleluyah; the Blood of the Lamb; the Blood of the Lamb will break the chains of sexual sin. And the death that comes as sexual sin cannot touch you anymore.
I told you at the end of this today, we are going to repent in masses in millions and we are going to make sure we are armed. So when you go back to work or whatever you go and they are lusting at you—the man is coming to you or the woman, you say, “Death I know you. I know the way you are packaged.” You are locked into sexual sin and you think it is over—it is finished there is no way out, I want you to know that the Lord has given us mighty power just like I read for you in the Book of Exodus, the Power of the Blood of the Lamb. There is so much mighty power under the Blood of the Lamb; the Passover Lamb; the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world—John chapter 1 verse 29. When John the Baptist saw the Lord coming to him for baptism, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.” And we’ve seen that the command of the Father was that we cover ourselves with His Blood. And that the Blood of the Lamb; that only the Blood of the Lamb will be able to keep us from this death that is wrapped up as sexual sin.
(Yaani kifo inakuja lakini kifo yenyewe imefunikwa. Huioni kama kifo. Unaona kama ni msichana mrembo. Unamuona kama ule ambaye ana lipstick nyekundu; ama ameweka makucha zake nyekundu. Yule ambaye ana miniskirt; yule ambaye ana tumbo cut; anaonyesha kifua. Wewe huoni hilo kifo lakini Bwana mwenyewe ashaongea akasema, ‘Nyinyi tazameni ndani mutaona kifo. Hili ni kifo ambalo linakuja lakini limefunikwa. Kwa hivyo amesema funikeni miili yenu na Damu la Kondoo itawaokoa;) it will not touch you.
Let’s look at the Book of Hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 to 16. He says, “Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.” He’s telling us that Christ is the High priest; He has already gone ahead of us; He’s interceding for us; He is our High Priest now, that’s what he’s talking about; let’s hold onto the faith. 15 he’s says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”
Remember here he’s talking about Christ the High Priest; Christ your intercessor seated on the right hand side of the Father. And He’s saying you should not worry, “I know you are having a lot of temptation; I know you are crying that your workplace is difficult.” Like some of the women, they have come to me where their bosses when it’s 5 o’clock in the bank that’s when the boss begins to pile up work and he’s sure that all people will leave at 5 and then he can remain with her and she is a new employee. He says, “Do not worry about those things; those work places, those difficulties.” And yet she is a new worker, just employed fighting for a job; may be as a family, children, she wants to keep her job and yet sexual sin is looking at her and trying to get to her. And you have to weigh in now between Christ here; you are born again and this man, this job. And he’s saying, “Do not worry about these things because there is nothing you are going through that Jesus did not go through.”
Now the High Priest you have is one that has gone through everything that you are going through. I want you to understand that this is your gateway. This is your way out now because even as the Lord pass through all this He was able to come out sinless. He came out without sin. He remains sinless till today and yet there is nothing you are going through that Jesus was not able to go through when He wore the flesh that you have. So there is no excuse in saying, “I was weak. I cannot manage it. I failed. I was not alert. She caught me unaware. I was vulnerable.”
And he is saying hold on firmly to Him. Speak to Jesus. He is interceding for you. When you tell Him, “Lord Jesus look at my work situation. Look at my sexual lusts. I have a lot of lust at work.” When you cry to Him, He knows every little thing you are going through. When you cry to Him He is able to relate with you and He is interceding for you to the Father. That is hope; you can be able to get through this. You can overcome sexual sin by depending and holding on firmly to the faith you profess in Christ Jesus.
So every weakness you are going through, you can relay them to Jesus. You can open up your heart. That’s why I said in the beginning it is an issue of the heart; sexual sin touches at the bottom of the heart. You can open your heart and say, “Jesus for me this is my weakness.” But the problem is that the church has not been sincere in opening up sin and wanting to repent genuinely. He’s telling you open up your heart and speak to the Lord Jesus. There is nothing you are going through that the Lord Jesus did not go through. So he is saying, “Just speak to Him. He has already managed. He has passed through the heavens. He is sitting on the right hand side of the Father interceding for you. ” Tell Him, “Lord I have a problem with sexual sin.” That is the beginning of the exit—the Blood of the Lamb; that is the way out.
Chapter 5 he says, “Every high priest is selected from among the men and is appointed to represent them in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.” And he says, verse 5, “So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’ And he says in another place, ‘You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.’”
So listen to me precious people: He already opened a way for you—a complete access to our God in Heaven, our Father. And He even went ahead by changing the order of priesthood. You cannot even say your prayers cannot reach heaven because you are not a Levite or you don’t have a Levite to pray for you. You don’t matter anymore whether you are Greek, you are Jew, you are black or you are white. He says you have direct access to God because He actually changed the priesthood and then changed the covenant. Now you have sonship with God.
So in other words, he is saying that Jesus passed through everything you are passing through and there is hope. You can depend on Him. Take your weakness and give Him; He will give you strength. Stop going to the psychologists to talk to them about how you are addicted to sexual sin. Stop reading some books; I heard that there is someone in London wrote ways of how to do exercises when I feel this or how whatever. Get out of those areas. Let us go back to the Blood of the Lamb of God. That is the only way out of sexual sin.
He is telling you very clearly here that now Jesus did not only offer His Blood but He’s also seated up there that when you come to Him through His Blood now; you come to the Father through the Blood of Jesus, the Lord Jesus is interceding for you and He knows what you are going through. He knows everything you are going through. There is nothing He does not know. So He can relate very closely and yet He is the High Priest. He is sitting next to the Father. So the Lord is telling you if you want to overcome sexual sin, take Jesus as the High Priest and begin speaking to the Lord Jesus very sincerely from the bottom of your heart about the weakness you have of sexual sin.
Remember when David knew he had fallen and God had shut the door on him, he spoke to God very openly about sexual sin. He said, “Lord give me a new heart, I don’t want this one which is rotten and infected! Give me a new one that is not infected; that is not contaminated; that is not addicted to sexual sin.” And God is faithful. He gave David a new heart. And David’s heart became, “The man after my own heart.”
The next way to get through sexual sin, we are getting deeper now; how to get out of there, the Book of Matthew chapter 4 verses 1 to 11. He says, “1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the tempter, by the devil. 2 After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” And He says in verse 4, “4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” You begin to understand one of the ways of getting out of this temptation of sexual sin is to receive the Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus had just being baptized, and then Heaven opened and the Holy Spirit came down as a glorious dove and lighted on Him and then He was led into the wilderness by the Spirit of the Lord and then He went straight into fasting to overcome the tempter. And so you see that one of the most important keys for overcoming sexual sin; and you saw in the beginning He begins to talk about food and the stomach and flesh when he wants to talk about sexual sin.
So in other words He is saying here that fasting is a key so you can disconnect the flesh from the spirit. Fasting is important; will cut off that flesh and so you will stop falling into sexual lust. The stronger your spirit, the weaker the flesh will become in control of you. The stronger your flesh the weaker the spirit, so one of the things the Lord is telling you to do here to overcome temptation like He did was to fast. He is telling you, “Please receive the Holy Spirit and go straight into fasting.” And you see that when the tempter came and told Him, “Turn these stones into bread.” And that is the same thing when the man come to you. He says, “O come let us do this” or women come to you they are dressed like this. When temptation comes you would say, “It is written you shall depend on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”
So the Lord is telling you that once you have received the Holy Spirit and then you’ve gone into fasting, now listen to this somebody; then he says use the Word of God. It is written; it is written; it is written; use the Word of God as defense. Refer to the Word of God! Use the manual of life; the Holy Bible and you’ll fight the devil. He cannot touch you with sexual sin. “5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command the angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
That’s why it is very clear to you people; if you know there are certain things that will predispose you to sexual sin; if you know that there are certain that will make you fall to sexual sin—certain places don’t put your God to the test. Don’t just say, “I am just going to the brothel or I am going to a bar and I want to see if my God is going to save me there.” He is telling you that depend on the Word of God because the Word of God says you cannot even put the Lord your God to any test, by the way. And look at what he is saying, verse 8, “8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you bow down and worship me.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone.’”
The Lord is saying here very clearly the same thing we read in the Book of Proverbs, He said, “Don’t look at the beauty that is being presented by sexual sin; the enemy is always going to flash for you very nice things—the miniskirts, the big cars, the nice homes. He is well- dressed; he has new suits; he has new shoes; he talks well; new perfumes; he travels a lot; he talks about abroad; he talks about big money in accounts.” He’s going to flash to you the Kingdoms of the world. And He is saying listen to me one thing, “You are supposed to shut the door. Jesus shut the door.” He said, “Away from me Satan. I know you death.”
And you see that the Lord closed the door on the devil by using the Word, “It is written; it is written; it is written” and the devil flees because He tells the devil, “You go. I know you.” And that’s why the Father was telling you don’t look at the beauty. Speak to my Words, listen to my Words. He says, “If you don’t follow my words concerning the instructions against sexual sin, you have rejected me.” And you ought to understand one thing—once you learn the ways in which the devil presents sexual sin and of course that comes through the wisdom and discernment of the Holy Spirit, then you can be able to use the Word to defend yourself.
Let me tell you there is so much power under the Word. And he says the Word is a double-edged sword cutting to the bone marrow. The Lord Jesus He showed us the way to overcome temptation and sin. And again let me just go through with you, those of you that may want to overcome sexual sin or even other kinds of sins, you see that prayer becomes critical. The Lord stepped out to go into the wilderness for fasting and praying. The Lord separated out from the world. He went into spiritual solitude to be alone. So prayer, spiritual solitude and even physical solitude—separate out, fasting will kill that flesh; depend on the Word of God. Always refer to the manual God gave you. He says your Body is a Holy Temple of the Holy Spirit. And he used the power of the Holy Spirit who was promised to you very free; that the Holy Spirit will change your value systems.
When you see those dirty TV commercials before the news about sexual sin, the Holy Spirit is going to tell you, “Now look why would you defile the altar you’ve just raised for the Lord Jesus in your house?” You turn them off. If you see a magazine that is dirty you tear it and burn it! If you go through even some of the TV commercials that you see where before the news a mother is sitting sijui talking to a daughter about condoms; how she should use condoms. The Holy Spirit is going to give you wisdom—change your values. You switch off that TV from your family. You say, “As for me and my family we have chosen the Lord—we will serve the Lord. We will follow holiness only.”
The Holy Spirit of the Lord and again for those of you writing the Lesson we learn from that segment I just finished is that you need to go into prayer if you have a problem with sexual sin; even the addiction—those addicted; even those Christians addicted to Internet pornography, magazine pornography to go in to see pornography. In this segment we see that our Lord Jesus went through everything we went through. So when you speak to Him about these things, He understands what you are going through. And yet He knows He was able to overcome and He came out sinless and He is seated; He has gone through Heaven, He is seated on the right hand side of the Father Jehovah God. And He is seated there interceding for you as the High Priest in your weakness, so open your heart.
And what else do you see here? He has also shown you how to go through it with Him; go to prayer; go into spiritual and physical solitude, separation; fasting kill your flesh; use the Word of God as reference to the devil. Tell him it is written; and you receive the Holy Spirit that was promised to you as a free gift; He will change the values of your mind and your heart. So when you see the miniskirts in the streets, you would say, you know what, “What would make a woman in this world full of AIDS to dress like this. She is going to attract the wrong people. Lord I’m praying for that woman. She is created in your image. The devil is a liar. She will not die of AIDS.”
And if you are a servant of God and she is giving you a lot of tithe and she is entering the church with her husband in a very short a miniskirt, and sitting in the front seat as you preach, you stand up and you rebuke sin, and you tell a woman, “Get me a leso here. Give this woman. I choose Jesus. My Lord is holy. I do not care. I rebuke sin today.” I rebuke sin! I know that Eli did not rebuke and God killed him.
James chapter 1; James chapter 1 verse 12 breaking the chains of sexual sin; tremendous time we have entered into as a church. Today the truth is coming out for the church. We have spoken the true Word. We’ve seen the true Word as written by God what He says about sexual sin—the weight of sexual sin in the eyes of God. Now we are looking at how to use the Word, the secrets, the keys in the Bible to break the chains of sexual sin. Today the church is being set free. Once the church can defeat sexual sin, this church is free.
James chapter 1 verse 12, “Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.” So I want you to understand that there is the key to overcome sexual lust, sexual sin, sexual immorality. Even if you are a single girl in the church and all the other girls have boyfriends, all of them they are walking with boyfriends, they are talking to you about boyfriends, they are on cell phones with boyfriends and yet for you they think you are abnormal; and if you are a young man in the church—you are not married, you have no girl friend and you are not calling anyone; no one is calling your cell phone and the other boys think that you are abnormal, them they are walking with girls, I want you to know that Jehovah God who created you is speaking about you. Don’t fall into those peer pressures of sexual sin. He is saying, “Blessed are you that perseveres under those trials because there is a crown waiting for you for those who love God.” That means you love God. You don’t have to do like they are doing. You don’t have to give in into the pressure. If you can persevere, God is walking with you. God is watching you. God is helping you. God is preparing to reward you—to crown you; to give you are crown.
Listen to this; why should I just go into some very silly relationship with a woman and fall may be get AIDS here, syphilis, whatever it is instead of waiting for the crown of God? 2 Peter chapter 2; I’m telling you today your freedom has come. Today your freedom has surely has gotten in here. 2 Peter chapter 2 verses 4 to 9; and this is what he says here.
He says, Hallelujah; you can read if you are at home later when you have time, just read from verse 1. But for the sake of, we are going further—we’ve not even reached half-way. 2 Peter chapter 2 verses 4 to 9, and this is what he says here, He says, “For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the floods on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;” verse 7 is the key for sexual sin—fighting sexual sin. He says, “…and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of the lawless men (for that righteous man, living among them a day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard” Halleluyah; verse 9 for you sexual sin to close it down kabisa. “—if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of Judgment, while continuing” Hallelujah; “their punishment.”
Halleluyah; listen to me somebody, listen to me somebody, I cannot hold this anymore. He is saying very clearly here, that Lot was living in a very difficult place, Sodom and Gomorrah. It was so bad that when the angels came, they wanted to defile the angels sexually and Lot had to offer his daughters. That is how filthy it was! And Lot lived in there in the filth and he was tormented day in and day out. And yet you, you have not even reached that level. And yet you see now very clearly that God says that if He is the same God that was able to save Lot when he was tormented, what is difficult with Him saving you from where you are. You have not even suffered that level of torment.
The same God is faithful to remove you from this very immoral world. Hang in there. Don’t give up somebody. Don’t go to the women in the bars because other men are doing so; because other men are going. Don’t give in to the pressures of the immoral world. The same God that was able to pull Lot out, He is able to pull you out and save you as a Godly man. The same God that was able to save Noah, the preacher of righteousness, He is able to save you. Even you the preachers, even you the pastors, don’t give in because it’s a fashion. Don’t give in because you see, “I see the other pastors preaching money and doing this, buying big cars,” and yet they are falling in sexual sin. You stick to holiness. Stick to repentance. Preach righteousness, stay with God. You see what I’m talking about. Look at what the Lord is telling us. He is telling us that He has complete power to take you out of there and He is speaking to you today about perseverance.
When you walk down the streets of any city don’t tell your wife, “You know there are so many women dressed almost naked I was weak, I fell to that.” No don’t say so. He is saying persevere. He is talking about perseverance because your redemption is at hand. God is seeing you. God knows the day of your salvation. He knows that you as a righteous person He is saving you from judgment. He saved Lot. He is not a liar. He is the same God. He never changed in 2006. He is going to save you and you will be in glory with Jesus. You will be proud of your life. And then you will begin to understand that the life on earth is extremely temporary. There is eternal life waiting for you out there.
The young girls in church, you don’t have to give in and lose your virginity or sexual purity. Wait on the Lord. The Lord is telling you just persevere, I am with you. I know you are living in an immoral world where every girl is talking about boyfriend. The young men in the church, just maintain your virginity and purity. The Lord is watching over you. He knows that when you persevere there is a crown for you. Don’t give in to the girlfriend, boyfriend story that you are seeing in the youth church.
The pastors who are single out there, look at the Bible there are many servants that are single, separated by God. You cannot just run around. “Hey I have to run quickly and look for a woman.” The devil will give you one that has HIV AIDS. That “I have to be complete; I have to be complete. You know as a pastor, I’m a young pastor from college—Bible College. I have to be complete now.” The devil knows you. He is going to tag you with a counterfeit. “I am beginning to look within the worship team.” You are going to humiliate Jesus—you are going to fall. Persevere! Persevere your way! The elders of the church might be speaking, tell them, “I’m waiting on the Lord. This time I am waiting on the Lord. I want to hear the voice of God. I want the woman that will help me serve God. Time has changed. Majira yamegeuka. The season has changed. I am not walking in the flesh. I know the Lord is watching on me. He is looking for a new breed of servants. I will not be old as usual; I am going to be a new generation. The new is old. The end time is over. I want to fly above the storms and restore this church. I don’t want to walk into flesh—sijui get woman; get woman. No I want to walk in the Spirit. I want to look for a spiritual wife that will serve God with me.
1 Corinthians chapter 10 and when the Lord brings you that wife, she will love Jesus more than you, and you will love Jesus more than her. And you will have three people in that marriage relationship. There will be Jesus at the center of that marriage and the husband and the wife. And I’m telling you that marriage is so solid by the Blood of Jesus; not just running and seeing that, “O I see that woman; she has started a church. She has many people. Let me run and marry her. That means there is a lot of money there; yes and cars there; let me run there.” Or “I see that man started recently. He’s anointed. He has many people in the church. Let me get married to him so I can have a car with him.” That woman is looking for material.
If you are like me and you start preaching utakatifu and repentance most of the sheep are going to walk out and then you will remain with few. That woman will leave you because you will not get money. You will not even preach money. Make sure you hear from the Lord. The Lord is saying “Persevere. Hang in there. I am watching you. Don’t go according to the wind, the fashions of the world.” Sijui I should find a wife so I be seen with a wife quickly; I should find a husband, be seen with a husband quickly. Remember the Lord has prepared for you a path, a wonderful wife. Don’t go according to flesh. Don’t go according to flesh, somebody. And when you get that husband or wife, the wonderful marriage, the model marriage and both of you will serve the Lord like shujaa, champions. And you can stand even during the fire when now you are been tested; when now you are passing through fire of the Holy Spirit, both of you will stand. And not to get married in a short while and then quickly you are looking for the worship leader. That is the beginning of the fall.
So let us understand what he is saying here. He says sexual immorality is a no, no, no. So he is asking you, “Please persevere, I know that you are living like Lot lived in Sodom and Gomorrah. Receive the Holy Spirit and persevere and wait on me.” And let me tell you the young girls you can maintain your purity and your virginity in church; nobody should tell you that you don’t have to maintain your virginity and purity.
You can maintain your purity until the day you are married to that man. That man is coming. Don’t worry. He’s coming; the Lord will present him. Don’t worry about that. Don’t panic. You might get HIV if you panic. And the Lord actually He knows every single thing you are going through. And you servants of God make sure you teach purity. Make sure you teach abstinence; abstinence; purity—keeping away from out of marriage sex; sexual sin, keep out from sexual sin. And when you teach that, I just want to remind you of one thing: There is another sin, there was a research done that was looking at the churches where they taught abstinence and this research was done in the western world—in the US. And they found that those that were maintaining abstinence, the youth, trying to maintain their virginity; I just want to show you how sexual sin is so deep and the devil uses it and it’s embedded in the church; those that chose to live in abstinence, the research found that majority of them were doing masturbation. And masturbation is homosexuality.
We saw the repentance at Egerton, how when they came out and said it’s a very big problem in the institution. It is a real problem in the church. We have to address this problem in the church. We have to teach them to abstain and abstain completely and persevere under the Holy Spirit. You see; today the truth is coming out. The church is being redeemed and delivered today. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 8 he is saying persevere even Lot persevered. Lot persevered so much in there. 1 Corinthians chapter 10 just to look at another aspect of how God looks at sexual sin; verse 8 is enough. He says, “We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.”
Why did I bring this here? Listen to me very carefully: The wife of Jehovah, Israel, the wife of Jehovah, He did many miracles in Egypt. He killed left and right to save Israel—the precious wife of Jehovah. But when they committed sexual sin, He killed 23,000 in one day. Their bodies were scattered all over the desert. So if you can understand the relationship that the Father has with His first born how He calls her at times—firstborn; He says, Israel His beloved one. And you see that because of sexual sin, He killed tremendously; 23,000 in one day, not 1,000—23 times. This is also another key that can help you to break the chains on sexual sin. So you begin to understand that the Lord has zero tolerance to sexual sin.
1 Corinthians chapter 1 verses 7 to Halleluyah to 9; Halleluyah! you are right; 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verses 7 to 8, “Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will keep you strong…” Listen to me somebody, “He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
He is saying here very clearly that the Lord is able to keep you blameless and strong as you wait for that day. The Lord is very clearly speaking to you here that He is going to keep you; just persevere; He’s going to keep you strong until that day. And He’s saying that He has spiritual gifts that He is going to give. There is no scarcity of those gifts—some of them are the gift of discernment; some of them the gift of just being able to be resilient, to persevere— crucify the flesh in the Holy Spirit; of knowledge, of wisdom; the gift of prophecy—if that woman coming to your office tomorrow is coming for sexual sin, the Lord can even show you in a dream through the gift of prophecy, somebody. And He’s telling you very clearly here that those of you that have fallen to sexual sin, you have been lied to by the devil. You did not know that such promises were in the Word of God; the Living Word. And He’s saying, “No, no, don’t worry. I am not scarce of gifts and I’ll keep you strong and you’ll be strong and you will be blameless until that day;” promises; He that never lies, promises so when that kind of temptation comes you say, “No, Lord you promised that you’ll keep me strong. I am not falling.”
Some of the gifts that He’s talking about is wisdom, knowledge, discernment, the gift of the fear of God, all these things He will give them to you be armed and be equipped with them. And then He will use that to keep you blameless until that day and when the day of the Lord comes and you waited, Halleluyah; and you stepping out on that day—the curtains are opening; the glory of the Lord is down, many people shall have fallen and you will see now the beauty of waiting on the Lord.
I am telling you today it is getting deep. Halleluyah; today it is opened up before the church. There is no more excuse for falling into sexual sin. So the Book of John chapter 8 but we are still handling right now how just to disconnect and you see that there is tremendous power and there are tremendous keys here that help you to completely shut the door on sexual sin. Halleluyah; He is saying here the Book of John chapter 8 verse 31 to 47, He says this, again look at the key here, “31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” Verse 32 He says, “32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” And He says, “The truth will set you free.” I’m telling you many times if you are in sexual sin, the enemy has blocked you from finding the truth until the church has even tolerated sexual sin. They have tolerated, the have lived with it. It’s as if it is normal, acceptable now because what the enemy has done, he has hidden the truth from them.
They say on Friday, Saturday, you can do the following with women and them Sunday you come unaweka sadaka yako elfu moja hapo, elfu mbili hivi.
You are trying to bribe God and yet our God is holy. And they think that is the way out. “See I will just repent. See I will repent on Sunday. I will repent.” The church has tolerated sexual sin. The dressings that are scanty, the dressings that actually propagate the spirit of lust in the church have been tolerated. They say, “No this is a modern church.” During kesha they put disco lights to pay 30 bob at the door; during keshas. The youth keshas, the youth keshas are not different from the worldly discos. That is how much and condoms are been picked from the church compounds in the morning. That is how much the church has tolerated sexual sin. And yet God spoke death to sexual sin. Death! Death!—He is saying don’t tolerate this one here. And so you see that the enemy has hidden the truth from the church regarding sexual sin and that’s why the Lord is saying here one of the keys He is giving here is that if you are my disciples, the truth will set you free. You will receive the truth and the truth will set you free.
And listen to what He says further on here, “I tell you the truth, anyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever” Then He says 36 “36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” Which means whoever has been set free by the Lord is surely free indeed; nobody should ever lie to you again that, “O you are tempted here.” If you have received freedom, surely you are freed forever now! The Lord is talking about the freedom that you receive when you discover the truth. And let me bring you to another level. In the Book of John chapter 14 verses 1 to 6, the Lord Jesus is answering Thomas and He says, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” So you begin to understand the truth He’s talking about here.
And later on in John chapter 14 He continues by saying, “When I live the Counselor, the Holy Spirit will come. He is the Spirit of truth; ascends to the Father, I will send you the promise that the Father gave you—the promise of He, the Person of the Holy Spirit. And He is the Spirit of Truth. He will convict the world of the sin in the world. And so when you hear that the truth will set you free you understand that that is a very deep meaning there. Jesus is the Truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth and yet the Holy Spirit when He came down, actually the Spirit of Christ came back as the Holy Spirit so He can be in many places at the same time. So you begin to understand that the Holy Spirit is actually the Spirit of Christ coming to many places at the same time to set you free, somebody. That’s why He says, when you pray in my Name I will send you the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Truth.
So the truth really sets you free. And the other thing He is asking you to do in this Scripture here is to be able to have wisdom because the truth will teach you one thing that when you are in sexual sin, actually you are in slavery; because He is saying, “I tell you the truth anyone who sins is a slave to sin.” So He is asking you to receive wisdom so you can be able to recognize that falling to sexual sin is actually slavery. You are being enslaved. And if you recognize that, you will break from it, you receive your freedom and then you will break from the chains of sexual sin.
We surely have to continue later. Mighty, mighty Jesus! What a mighty King. He gave us solutions to everything here so actually there is no excuse for sexual sin to be in the church. The church should be the rod of God. The Christians should be the rod of God guiding the nations and bringing correction to the nations.
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